The Progressive POPULIST

A Monthly Journal from the Heartland
September 1999 -- Volume 5, Number 9
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Curt Guyette
Life after Ross: Reform Party Acid Test

EDITORIAL
Casting for Leadership

JIM HIGHTOWER
Mustard Held Hostage!;
Helping to Stop Drug Price-Gouging;
Bush's Bundlers;
Top-Secret to Toilet Paper;
Stop Police-State Seizures
Free KPFA

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LINN HAMILTON
Chasing Rural Rainbows

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Back to School Special

REPORT/Peter Downs
Food Gene Fixers Split Over Corporate Control;

Weeds Coincide with Toxic Algae Blooms

REPORT/Betty Brink
No Mercy at Federal Prisons

PAUL WELLSTONE
Kids Stand to Lose in Budget Debate

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
IBP to IBT: 'Let Me Call You Sweetheart'

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Capital for People on Bottom Rung

JOHN BUELL
Killing the Goose?

WILL DURST
Smoke-Filled Rooms

CHUCK COLLINS
Tax Cut Proposals a Bonanza for Rich

MARTY JEZER
My Republican Vacation

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
GOP Bosses Don Blinders to Pass Tax Cut

NANCY KARI & HARRY BOYTE
Bush Vision Dumbs Down Citizenship Role

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The First Lady as Therapeutic Cop

JOHN NICHOLS
Utilities Need More Regulation, Not Less

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
A Labor Day Letter to the AFL-CIO

NEIL WOLLMAN, LEONARD WILLIAMS & ABIGAIL FULLER
Political Myths Die Hard

SPEECH/Granny D
Old Reformers Never Give Up

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Trying to Suppress Skippy's Story

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
A Legislative Inferno

DISPATCHES
Speed Bumps on the Road to Seattle

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella H. Meadows
The Ugly Rider Game

ESSAY/James Eggert
Millenial Economics

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
It's Scold Out There

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Fighting Software Bloat with Old Computers

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Media Fixations Prevail

NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
'Les Miserables'

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Humanizing Wages, Not Just Raising Them

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
Battle of the Epigons

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Community Activists Still Matter

JESSE JACKSON
We Deserve Better

HAL CROWTHER
God's Holy Fire

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
What If the Church/State Wall Fell?

SAM PIZZIGATI
Creative Accounting American-Style

MOLLY IVINS
For $1M You Get Left Alone;
Up Ladder & Down Tubes;
1 Tragic Death for 5 Others

TED RALL
Revenge of Reaganauts

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Where to From Here? p. 23


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